A challenging growth, markets, inequality and resentment Ricci, David M. creator author. text enk 2020 monographic eng 1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). Populism and authoritarian-populist parties have surged in the 21st century. In the United States, Donald Trump appears to have become the poster president for the surge. David M. Ricci, in this call to arms, thinks Trump is symptomatic of the changes that have caused a crisis among Americans - namely, mass economic and creative destruction: automation, outsourcing, deindustrialization, globalization, privatization, financialization, digitalization, and the rise of temporary jobs - all breeding resentment. Rather than dwelling on symptoms, Ricci focuses on the root of our nation's problems. Thus, creative destruction, aiming at perpetual economic growth, encouraged by neoliberalism, creates the economic inequality that fuels resentment and leads to increased populism. Ricci urges political scientists to highlight this destruction meaningfully and substantively, to use empirical realism to put human beings back into politics. Ricci's sensible argument conveys a sense of political urgency, grappling with real-world problems and working to transform abstract speculations into tangible, useful tools. The result is a passionate book, important not only to political scientists, but to an David M. Ricci. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2020). n-us--- United States Politics and government 21st century Populism United States History 21st century JK275 .R53 2020 320.473 9781108785440 (ebook) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108785440 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108785440 UkCbUP 190617 20210213154025.0 CR9781108785440 eng